§ MR. M'LARENasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether there are any reasons why so much of the money formerly belonging to the late 221 ex-Gaikwar of Baroda, and now in the hands of the Indian Government, as will provide for the claims of the English agents and advocates of the late ex-Gaikwar against his estate, for services rendered, should not be paid to such agents and advocates by the Indian Government; and, whether it is the fact that claims of that nature, which the late ex-Gaikwar was desirous of meeting, are still unsatisfied, owing to the delay of the Indian Government in paying the money?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSSir, the unspent balances of the amount annually set aside from the Baroda Revenues for the maintenance of Mulkar Rao are not in the hands of the Indian Government. They have been treated as lapsed to the Baroda State at the close of each year; and it is for that Government to deal, as it may think proper, with claims such as those referred to by my hon. Friend.